Katy Pyle and her company, Ballez, have a new work called Giselle of Loneliness (click here if you don’t get the reference) “that grapples conceptually with ballet’s stringent and arguably exclusionary, conformist and outmoded traditional norms. … [The] production pairs seven dancers, all female-assigned or of femme experience, with an imaginative framing concept: They are competing to play Giselle, and confronting all the oppressive demands such a canonical role entails. Performers portraying a host and judges round out the audition-style proceedings.” – The Washington Post
